Sarah Coolican

Sarah Coolican is a freelance journalist and a researcher specialising in the post-Soviet sphere and Russian society at the think tank LSE Ideas.

On Russia, the EU should learn from the Baltics

When is the EU going to take action against Belarus, the Soviet dictatorship crumbling away on its eastern edge? Dominic Raab has announced that the UK will unilaterally impose ‘Magnitsky-like’ sanctions against Belarussian officials, blocking those complicit in the mass incarceration of protesters from operating within the UK. Meanwhile, at a Foreign Affairs Council meeting last month, Cyprus